Mahlangu was 22 years old when he was hanged by the apartheid government in 1979.
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/ 18 September 2005
The African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) on Saturday suspended its deputy president, Reuben Mohlaloga, over remarks he made disowning the organisation’s decision over the ”two centres of power” debate. The ANCYL national executive committee referred the matter to the national disciplinary committee.
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/ 18 September 2005
It is not yet conclusive that the source of the typhoid outbreak in Delmas was the town’s water, the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry said on Saturday. Karin Bosman, the department’s director of water-resource protection and waste, said tests run so far have not shown any presence of the bacteria.
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/ 18 September 2005
Zimbabwe must radically overhaul its land-reform policy to revive the economy and retain membership in the International Monetary Fund, which has given it six months grace from threatened expulsion, analysts say. The Southern African nation, in the throes of economic turmoil, faces a bleak future.
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/ 18 September 2005
The African leader some call a hero and others a destructive despot suggests people in his country aren’t hungry, they just can’t eat their favourite food. President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe said in an exclusive interview on Friday that his people are ”very, very happy”, though aid agencies report four million of 11,6-million face famine.
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/ 18 September 2005
Neon-lit newsstands, groaning under the weight of hundreds of glossy women’s magazines, are everywhere in Shanghai and Beijing. And this month China’s growing importance to the fashion world was officially recognised — it got its own Vogue. ”Good taste continues its world tour,” trumpeted Vogue.com.
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/ 18 September 2005
Two police officers and four suspected Taliban rebels were killed in clashes hours before key Afghan elections on Sunday, while a United Nations staffer was injured by a rocket strike, officials said. Insurgents fired two rockets early on Sunday at a UN Children’s Fund warehouse in a UN compound on the outskirts of Kabul.
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/ 18 September 2005
More than 12-million Afghans are eligible for Sunday’s election to choose the 249-seat Wolesi Jirga — Lower House of Parliament — and 34 provincial councils in a vote fraught with peril. Although the landmark election is supposedly about the future, it has in many ways become a reckoning of the past.
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/ 18 September 2005
As Germans go to the polls on Sunday in the closest general election for decades, it is an unlikely alliance of elderly communist grannies and hirsute left-wing activists who may hold the key to the result in Europe’s biggest economy. Angela Merkel now appears to be ahead, according to the latest surveys.
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/ 18 September 2005
Behind a high, protective wire fence, brightly dressed schoolchildren play amid a flock of pigeons, a tableau of joyful innocence. But then a spectator notices the birds pecking violently at the kids, two of whom have already fallen, their guts spilling on to the floor.